Had a great meeting with Unity3d indie sensation Russ Morris before the videogames event at Bafta tonight. It’s also been a while since I kept this blog up to date so I thought I’d better get back into the habit of writing!
I haven’t described Starlings on this blog before now so here’s a summary. I was contacted by the developer, Russ Morris, who had received my name through the friendly chaps over at Beatnik Games. Since then we’ve been frequently brainstorming, drinking coffee, updating starlings, drinking more coffee, and creating previews which are usually available at http://starlingsgame.co.uk/. Below is an video of the game at the moment.
The project struck me as particularly exciting because of the relationship between game and music. Russ’s idea was that you fly around the space as a bird collecting more birds for the flock. Larger flock = Larger Orchestra. A deceptively simple concept which huge opportunities for creating new game experiences.
With today’s discussions Russ has impressed me yet again with some great ideas to make the game more rich in terms of content and we brainstormed some great ideas for the ‘social’ side of the game which I’m particularly keen to see in action!
More news and hopefully some music to come!
-Christopher
